AbstractThis week’s assignment is overcoming stress, fatigue, brutality, and corruption within the police force. Unfortunately, the role of a police officer is one of the most stressful professions there is. We will be discussing the reasons why this is so, and what is being done to help those officers in need of counseling or medical attention to ease the heavy load that they are carrying before they explode, since they are walking time bombs.

Low pay, rotten hours, high stress, putting up with drunks, druggies, stepping in to break Up fights, directing traffic in the pouring rain….who in their right mind would choose that profession? There are thousands of men and women throughout just the United States that are enrolled in a community college or a four year school, such as Everest University, in hopes of obtaining a position on a police force somewhere. If they are lucky enough to be hired on to a department somewhere, are they going to be able to survive? Or will the overwhelming stress factors cause them to crash and burn within the first couple of years or sooner?

Both work and personal factors pile up and create stress. Work stressors can be a result of poor management, equipment malfunction, rotating shift cycles, excessive overtime, ever changing job duties, and inter-departmental conflicts. Personal factors can include: health, fatigue from having to moonlight to make ends meet, family problems and financial (Causes of Officer Stress and Fatigue, 2012).

All of these stressors can manifest into several different areas. From the fatigued officer not being able to sleep, and finding out that he also suffers from sleep apnea. Using a C-Pap machine finally gives the officer a good night’s rest, that and the new mandatory no...

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PoliceBrutality
Introduction
Policebrutality is the wanton use of excessive force, usually physical, but potentially in the form of verbal attacks and psychological intimidation, by a police officer.
Widespread policebrutality exists in many countries, even those that prosecute it. It is one of several forms ofpolice misconduct, which include: false arrest; intimidation; racial profiling; political repression; surveillance abuse; sexual abuse; and policecorruption. However, as aforementioned, it may involve physical force but never reaching death under police custody. Although illegal, it can be done under the color of law.
Body
Police officers are legally permitted to use force, and their superiors and the public expect them to do so. According to Jerome Herbert Skolnick, in dealing largely with disorderly elements of the society, some people working in law enforcement may gradually develop an attitude or sense of authority over society, particularly under traditional reaction-based policing models; in some cases the police believe that they are above the law.
There are many reasons as to why police office are excessively aggressive to civilian. It is thought that...

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PoliceBrutality
Amy McKinnon
Baker College
English Composition 102
October 27, 2014
United States police play a very important role in the lives of U.S. citizens today. Their duty is to serve and protect us from harm, but often times this may not be the case. Americans are made to believe that these officers will serve and protect us, when in all reality police are more interested in enforcing the law and making arrests. The police often overstep their authority and begin acting as if they are above the law. Policebrutality has become an ongoing topic amongst American citizens for quite some time now. Police often use excessive force physically, which often times results in death or severe injury to citizens. Police have been violating the human right of peaceful assembly, and have often times let race become a main factor in which the officer will use in engaging in enforcement. The use of wearable cameras can help eliminate the injustice, or at least the officers whom continue the violence.
When Americans think of police the first thing that often times comes to mind is fear. The police are supposed to protect and serve, but are more likely just to over enforce the law and make as many arrests as they can. Many officers also use racial profiling against people, this is demonstrated in...

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PoliceBrutality
Lakhbir Singh
Medicine Hat College
Reg Leibel
CJLS 101
November 4, 2013
Contents
PoliceBrutality 4
PoliceForceBrutality 4
G-20 Summit Protests 5
Police Racism 5
Peaceful Protests 5
Background of the protests 6
Law Regarding Protests and Emergencies 7
Police Office-Guilty 8
Activists Detained ByPolice 10
Conclusion 11
References 12
Abstract
The assignment is based on the excessive use of policeforce during the G-20 summit held in Canada. The excessive use of policeforce creates some serious problems at times. The summit meeting is held to strengthen the economic activity inG-20 nations, the main aim is to do something better for the welfare of the country. To ensure the security of the summit the policeforce has expensed millions of dollars and most of the people are of the view that, this is the more expensive security setup. But after the summit the people starts protests for their rights but suddenly all this has changed and a massacre has started. Some people invade in the protest and starts damaging the cars and set fire to the national assets. In order to ensure the security the policeforce have used every possible thing which they can do and this...

...﻿PoliceBrutality is Prevalent
Background Information
Over the recent years, police have been one of the organizations to be associated with the largest cases of misconduct. Policebrutality can be termed as the process of misuse and abuse of authority by the police. The rising cases of policebrutality are causing more harm to the public, compared to the actions perpetrated by real criminals. Although police claim that it’s sometimes necessary to curb crime, the process is illegal and police officers should be charged just like any other criminal offender. It should be the responsibility of the justice system to establish effective strategies to deal with the rising illegal activities in order to restore public trust in the law enforcement authorities. The police, the group with the responsibility of protecting citizens, commit illegal activities.
Individuals engaged in law enforcement activities can define policebrutality as the process of using excessive force. In addition to the abuse of power by the policeforce, the term is also used to illustrate the misuse of power by individuals in the municipal, correctional facilities and other facilities subjected to reforming and retaining criminals. In a case reported in the year 2011, SWAT (Special...

...Brutal Force
Persuasive/Policy/Problem/Cause/Solution
Central Idea/Thesis: Policebrutality should be regulated with greater strength and objectivity.
INTRODUCTION
I. Policebrutality is constantly made known to us all through mass media, but I hadn’t ever taken the time to truly grasp the severity of it until it hit close to home.
A. Three weeks ago, a close family friend was brutally beaten in front of his children at a family gathering by the police.
B. My purpose is to persuade my audience that policebrutality should be regulated with greater strength and objectivity.
C. Today I will discuss how policebrutality is a major problem throughout the United States, as well as two of its main causes and how this problem requires us to deal with both of these causes.
TRANSITION I will now discuss my first main point.
BODY
II. Policebrutality has been a problem throughout the United States for as long as its history goes back.
A. This threat to our security only continues to develop at a ferocious rate.
1. Recent news broadcasts have been supplied with a plethora of cases of policebrutality throughout the country.
a) The recent cases of Trayvon Martin, the horrors in Ferguson, and the shooting of an unarmed 93 year-old Pearlie Golden are all examples of the growing...

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Mr. Gonzalez
8 April 2009
PoliceBrutality Draft
Who can forget the Los Angeles riots and the Rodney King beating in 1991? This case of policebrutality was the most widely known. Over the years, it seems that police abuse remains one of the most serious human rights violations in the United States. It makes the people wonder if in fact police officers are doing their job and if they are here to protect us. Police officers get away with unjustified shootings, fatal choking, rough treatments, and severe beatings. Policebrutality needs to be addressed and there has to be harsher punishment to minimize the amount of policebrutality that happens. A punishment that they can receive for their brutality is harsher sentencing and job dismissals. If such a case should go to court the judge and jurors should sentence the police officer. If the case was minor then the chief of police or someone in charge.
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...Policebrutality remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States. The excessive use of force by police officers persists because of overwhelming barriers to accountability. This fact makes it possible for officers who commit human rights violations to escape due punishment and often to repeat their offenses. Police or public officials greet each new report ofbrutality with denials or explain that the act was an aberration, while the administrative and criminal systems that should deter these abuses by holding officers accountable instead virtually guarantee them impunity (Williams 45).
Investigations find that policebrutality is persistent in all cities, and the systems set up to deal with these abuses have all had similar failings in each city. It was also established that complainants often face enormous difficulty in seeking administrative punishment or criminal prosecution of officers who have committed human rights violations. A national survey was taken by the Seattle Times and states that seventy percent of all police crimes against the public go unreported (Database of Abusive Police). Despite claims to the contrary from city officials where abuses have become scandals in the media, efforts to make meaningful reforms have fallen short.
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